A spokesman for Mrs. Oliver said her husband was 21 years old and had been in the Army about a year and a half. He was a native of Victory, where his parents still live.

Mrs. Packard said her son was 18 and had been in the Army since last July. He was a graduate of Lodi High School and has three brothers and a sister.

The plane was en route to Saigon, South Vietnam, where the 93 GI’s aboard were scheduled to relieve other American soldiers who have been helping train Vietnamese troops in the fight against Viet Cong guerrillas. The plane disappeared between Guam and the Philippines.

Others aboard were 11 American plane crew members and 3 South Vietnamese.

Ships and planes of the U.S. armed forces crisscrossed 15,000 square miles of ocean looking for a clue to the airliner’s fate.

Loss of all aboard would make it the third worst single-plane disaster in aviation history.

Army Secretary Stahr said in Washington a “maximum effort” was being made to locate the plane.

“We have not given up hope that it will be found and that those aboard are safe,” Stahr said.

Striking coincidences and unexplained circumstances in the flights of that airliner and another plane taking American military help to South Vietnam led the owner of the planes Friday to raise these possibilities:

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The Mother & Father of Jack Packard was never given a Purple Heart that Jack should have been awarded. Is a soldiers life not worth the presentation of an award that honors his military service to his country? Jack has three brothers and a sister that are still alive and they have only one question. WHY?